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A beggar who wilfully obstructed an elderly wheel-chair bound man and then abused a garda, calling him a “piece of s**t”, received a five month suspended sentence at the Galway District Court this week.

In the summer of 1940, following the fall of France to the Germans, thousands of young men enlisted in the Irish Army to defend their land against aggression, training at the Curragh and then being deployed to military barracks around the country.

A tragic accident on the Mayo-Galway border on Tuesday night claimed the lives of four young women.

A 23-year-old man from Belcarra, who during a drinking binge caused havoc in the TF bar and Tolster’s Bar, where he struck the bar owner on the side of the head, was before Castlebar District Court on Wednesday.

A farmer from Ballycastle who, following a complaint from a member of the public in relation to his driving, was stopped and arrested for drink driving, was disqualified from driving for four years at Ballina District Court this week.

Members of two families who were involved in a ruckus in the lobby and steps of Castlebar Courthouse were back in court on Wednesday where four men faced section six public order charges.

Chairman of the Athlone Drug Awareness Group, Cllr Frankie Keena, said he was delighted with the success of the drug seizure by the Gardai in Athlone last weekend.

A taxi driver was so intent on squirming his way into a rank space that he blocked up traffic, completely ignored a garda rapping on his window, and then dangerously edged his car in “on top” of the garda who had to take evasive action to avoid being hit.

A student who took a garda’s jacket from the squad car that brought him home after a post-exam bender last May, will have to wait until March to hear the judge’s final decision after the court heard he couldn’t appear this week (December 16), as he was sitting an exam.

A student who took a garda’s jacket from the squad car that brought him home after a post-exam bender last May, will have to wait until March to hear the judge’s final decision after the court heard he couldn’t appear this week (December 16), as he was sitting an exam.